Title: QUALITY SYSTEM FOR WINTER MAINTENANCE IN FINLAND
Abstract: This paper describes how the public roads in Finland are managed by the Finnish Road Administration (FRA), and how this Administration is gradually opening maintenance work or regional maintenance contract to competition in 2001-2004. The three-year regional maintenance contracts include total responsibility and cover anywhere from 500 to 1500km. The FRA requires public road maintenance contractors to have a quality plan in which the contractor describes how it assures that the standards will be met. The FRA's role in these quality-responsible regional maintenance contracts is to monitor the functionality of the contractor's total quality management system. The Finnish Road Enterprise is a state-owned enterprise that was separated form the FRA beginning January 1, 2001 and it provides reports on the quality of winter maintenance while monitoring maintenance procedures in conjunction with road inspections and by providing deviation reports if the standards are not met.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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